Word: vagabondism
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...year was less than five minutes old as the Vagabond, or someone, at least who might well have been mistaken for him, was reclining in a comfortable sofa at a country club. Next to him sat a beautiful creature of, shall we say, the gentler sex. Perhaps the opposite sex would more accurately convey our meaning, for the Vagabond is essentially a virile specimen...
...empty champagne glass in the Vagabond's hand bore evidence of the new year's proper reception and with the Vagabond all was well. He remembered, a trifle vaguely, perhaps, that he would not roam the halls of learning until the mid year examinations; besides, we have remarked, perhaps we should say confessed, the glass was empty. Then, too, it has been recorded that the Vagabond's companion was fair, was, it may be said, shall, in fact, be said, nothing short of well favored...
With the disappearance of the moisture so prevalent in Cambridge last Friday, and the gratifying results of medicinal draughts upon the Vagabond's imminent pneumonia--now happily he is out of danger and once more able to set pen to paper--a problem confronts him; or rather be it admitted, a problem did confront him until very recently. In a word he has decided to quit the hallowed shades of Sever, the exalted glories of Emerson--in short the fair, silvan banks of the winding crystal Charles itself--and bask in Bermuda for the rest of this miserable, cold weather...
...after all, who will blame the Student Vagabond? Who, indeed! Who is so hard hearted as not to shed a tear--even only figuratively speaking at the thought of the grievous impediment which the freezing slush of Massachusetts avenue would offer to progress of the wanderer's roller skates? Who would not weep to see him, lightly skimming along the boardwalks from Harvard to Sever, trip with dire results upon a protruding nail, half hidden by the snow? Who would not but why call up more misery? It is, indeed, lost too many tears should flow, least those...
...that too cause no sadness, for the very tears of the parting are, as they say, swallowed up in the smile of the return, and as soon as the weather and various other conditions grows milder, the Vagabond will once more be a frequenter of the Yard...